bummppppppp

 

finally some progress to report ,,,, and regress

i got the interior panels back in , and got the master cylinder fixed and bled, and finally swapped the spark plugs. i never got to buying the bulbs for the the headlight and taillights but i decided to slap them on and replace the bulbs when ever i get a chance.
and i also finalized the rear shelf cover thingy- all thats left for it is carpeting. and i finally got the ac compressor mounted. just need tot wait for the fittings to show up so i can make some lines.

after that i started working on the intake piping , like i mentioned before its a tight fit but i think i have it pretty much nailed down , it also has a provision for th IAT sensor. the best part is that i can use this intake tube for now and for when i get the turbo's on there

here is how it looks in the engine compartment :



and how much it sticks out in the fenders , this is where the intercoolers will attatch later on :



and the other side :



after that i attatched the air filters where the intercoolers used to sit:



and now for the bad news :
after finishing all that i decided to take the car out for a spin , which didn't happen ,,,, because the shifter linkage under the shifter decided to break
so now i have to wait till i get the replacement ones in .
i also noticed that the water temp and RPM guages were not working, so this means i have to retrace the wires back to the DME (pcm) ,,, which i'm sick of doing


so i guess i have to wait now till the parts show up , i also have to take the intake pipes and and have them cleaned up (the ugly welds ) and weld some beads on the ends of the pipes , then take them to be powdercoated and call them done
and hopefully by the next update the the AC lines will be finished and the lights will be done too

 

Sorry to hear about the issues, if you havent orfered the shifter box yet, hit me up i have a couple!

 

Your intake pipe is steel?

Aluminum would be cooler/colder for intake with or without a turbo.

 

hey marky , i'll get in touch real soon
denali, the pipes are all aluminum

 

Thanks for the update.

 

wish i had more to add , but just been really really busy over here ,,,,, plus that stupid '70 camaro is forcing me to work on it
i already have the whole front half of the car completly dissasembled and the engine and trans out of the car . so much for not touching it till i was done with the scout and porsche

 

been spending every availiable minute going through this thread for the last 2 days..dont see anything after page 36... CLIFF HANGER! did it get done?

 

looool, it ain't done yet
even when it gets "road worthy" and painted , there's still the win tourbo's i have to install and the new shortblock

think of this as the ls1 version of 90210 or all my children

 

I was thinking more along the lines of '8 is enough'!

 

Either way I'm waiting for the finale! Any updates?

 

nothing much going on , i got the shifter linkage and somehow lost it or got rid of it by mistake !
i'm waiting for the new linkage to come in and have beeen real busy with a whole bunch of other stuff , plus the racing season over here is about to start, so its a mad rush to get things ready , which means less porsche time

i'm just trying to find some time to get a whole bunch of things done all together at once , like the shifter linkage , rear bumper and tips install , checking the RPM and coolant signals (tracing the wires), and so forth

 

if its not one thing , its the other !

i finally got the linkage in and installed it , started the car and shifted it a few times in several gears just to make sure the linkage was adjusted properly, then shut it down for the night cause i wanted to take it to buddy of mine to fine tune cold idle and startup.

so i come back after two days and i try to start it and it would bearly start and can barely hold idle , then it would just sputter and die after a few seconds. it would imediatly die if i even looked at the throttle .

so anyhow , i statrt trouble shooting , so the first thing i do is pop the spark plugs and take a look , they were sooty and i cleaned them ,,, no luck there , then i decide to take a look at the gas tank ( i don't recall ever filling it ) and wouldn't you know it the sending unit ( aka the bucket ) was dry , so i thought AHA! , so i run down and get me some gas and fill it up untill i made sure the fuel pump was submerged and fired it up ,,,, and it did the same thing


any how the tuner comes around to see what we can check ( i didn't have a fuel pressure guage or scanner so i couldn't check sensor operation nor verify fule pressure , which meant i could not tell if it was being caused by a bad pump , clogged filter or what have you)
so we hooked up the scan tool and checked, nothing there - everyhing was reading fine but nothing was happening ,,,,, untill he changed the commanded AFR to something like 8 ! and viola!!! it idled smooth and reved ok !

so we take it to his shop and checked the fuel pressure and guess what : i had a whopping 9 psi

so apparently there is a fueling issue ,,,, so i took the filter off and checked it , it was ok ( used the blow through test ) which means its somewhere up front : either the pump is bad or the hose from the pump to the top of the tank is ruptured somhow ( i didn't take a good look when i poped the sending unit out )

i stopped there and decided to continue later , so now i have to double check the hoses in the tank , make sure pump is ok , and in the odd case that isn't the issu swap out the fuel filter/regulator with a new one.

 

Glad to hear that @ least you identified the issue. Trouble shooting can be a real pain in the a$$; as you know.

 

my *** bears witness

 

messed with the fuel system today , and i think we've solved it. sore some odd reason the check valve in the fuel supply line in the tank decided to take a crap and the feed line started pushing fuel back into the siphon tubes. anyhow , i still need to run the car till it looses some of the gas in the tank to verify the fix , but untill then it seems to work.

also found out that the gas guage works now and the calibration they keep talking about is for the low fuel warning light i guess.

so now i have the speedo , oil pressure , gas guage and volt guage working , i just have to trace the wires from the engine to the pcm to verifiy that the signal is getting there (after swapping the interior harness).

any how, decided it was time for more testing to make sure the fuel system is ok
here's a few WOT runs for your viewing pleasure please ignore the power steering pump whine :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXNwrSTJcuU

 

Hey Z...

Your fuel gauge requires calibration because anything below a certain point is a calculation due to the fact is uses the saddle tanks. So any time the car has less than 1/3 of a tank its calculating remaining fuel. So if you disconnect the battery with less than 1/3 tank you lose your calibration. The gauge will start working again once above that level again.

The pump is designed to feed pressure into the syphon tubes, the issue normally is the plastic end comes out of the suction pumps, so then its just dumping fuel into the saddle tank!!!

Mark

 

thanks marky, i was wondering how that went , plus i didn't take the suphon tubes out to check (too much gas in the tank + me being lazy).
i'll have to look into that again.

 

Glad to see it running. That is such a good feeling after all this time, congrats.

 

keep it up bro its geting closer and closer